Baca Architects is hiring a qualified architect to join its team in London.
What we do
BACA architects is a leading and award-winning design and urban planning studio that specialises in designing places, buildings, and masterplans in, on, near, and under water. We are an international leader in flood-resilient architecture, climate-adaptive masterplanning, sustainable waterfront development, and innovative floating and amphibious structures. The team brings together expertise in architecture, urban design, and environmental engineering. Through our innovative LifE (Long-term Initiatives for Flood-risk Environments) approach, we integrate water-sensitive design strategies into the built environment to address increasing flood risks and environmental change.
Our team
We are a compact practice with a growing international portfolio – with work in the UK, Maldives, India, Australia and Saudi. We are partnered with NBAX.at, Square Floating City and Waterstudio (Netherlands), AMs Consultants (India), and ICF (USA), we bring decades of cross-sector, worldwide experience, engineering, and policy expertise to deliver end-to-end human-led solutions from feasibility to design, planning, and construction.
Our values
Our work is guided by our 6 Pillars underpinned by three core principles: Making Space for Water, Living with Water, and Sustainable Design. Please refer to these in any application to the practice.
Sample projects at different scales:
Masterplanning Scale
Water City is a 200-acre circular urban-industrial campus on the edge of Hyderabad that integrates education, R&D, manufacturing, digital infrastructure, housing, and nature-based systems into a self-regulating ecosystem to address regional water scarcity while enabling sustainable growth in data centres, semiconductors, and advanced manufacturing at global scale.
Neighbourhood
Design for Floating Square City.
Square Floating City is designed as a modular and scalable alternative for urban expansion. By using the waterspace, it is designed to confront rising sea levels and land scarcity. Public buildings and community spaces can be prefabricated off site and installed with minimal disturbance, ensuring rapid and flexible urban expansion. Incorporating renewable energy, water circularity systems, and climate resilient infrastructure, it serves as a bold prototype for the future of urbanisation.
Building scale
We are designing amphibious houses, flood resilient housing, spas and water centric fitness centres.
We require a friendly polymath with a broad and versatile skill set:
- assumed minimum of three years post-Part 3 experience
- has experience or the confidence to run a small team
- ability to monitor and mentor junior members
- comfortable with report writing
- ability to meet deadlines and manage inputs from wider team members
- is comfortable with face-to-face client engagement
Design ability:
- has had some masterplanning experience
- min of 2.1 architectural degree
- ideally a masters
- interest in sustainability
- interest in data
Energy, resilience and self-reliance
Occasionally we are asked to undertake ‘design sprints’ by our clients. These are typically 12-week intensive work periods. These do not need to be serviced by overtime but they do require intense periods of creativity, focus and output.
There is an opportunity for international travel
Understands the role of digital design in managing complex projects, supporting multidisciplinary collaboration, and enhancing design quality and efficiency.
Computer skills:
- Vectorworks, Sketchup, Revit or equivalent experience
- Adobe suite
- Microsoft suite
- Ability to draft and monitor a project programme
How to apply
Please submit your cover letter and digital CV and portfolio via the apply for job button, quoting “architect, renior role” in the subject line.
This is a full-time position (40 hours per week). Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK and be based in the United Kingdom.
BACA Architects is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for considering our practice.
www.baca.uk.com
